January | 2011

Google Earth Advanced Training

On 8th and 9th of February 2011, Google and the community will be exploring the exciting and versatile capabilities of Google Earth. We are holding a two day training at the iHub where we will demo and teach some of Earth’s most powerful technologies and coding language for building applications. In addition, we will also highlight some other Google mapping tools.

Tools Highlights for the two days include:

Google Earth

Basics Earth Interface & Navigation
KML
Google Earth Tours
Google Earth API

Google Map Maker

Adding Features on Google Map Maker
Editing Features
Moderation

Confidence levels

Quality

Accuracy

Google Fusion table

Fusion table basics
Google Fusion Table in action
Fusion Table API
Use Cases

Event speakers include Google’s own earth experts, map maker experts as well as external Fusion Table core users. RSVP here.

By: Tosh

26-01-2011

Community Events Members

Foosball Tournament & Cake @iHub

Foosball players from all over the iHub Network are converging today for the Official Kickoff of the iHub Foosball champions league to be held at the iHub Foosball Stadium. This event is expected to draw many of the best foosball players and numerous top international players as well.

There will also be cake to official thank the Badge-less contributors of the Cake Kitty. Hope to see you tonight! Games kick off immediately after Cake at 5.30pm

By: Jessica Colaco

24-01-2011

Community Entrepreneurship Events Members Mentorship

Fireside Chat with Kenneth Oyolla from Nokia Corporation – East and Southern Africa

Kenneth Oyolla is the General Manager of Nokia Corporation for East and Southern Africa, a role he has held for the past 5 months. In this role Kenneth is responsible for leadership and management of all Nokia activities in the markets that fall within this region which are Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, Angola, Zambia, Mozambique and Rwanda.

In his current role, Kenneth became the first African ever for Nokia to hold this position and paving the way for many more to come. Prior to taking over the role of General Manager, Kenneth was the Head of Sales for Nokia for the past three years where he was responsible for leading the Sales function in delivering outstanding results and building of the Nokia distribution infrastructure in East & Southern Africa

The Nokia team that Kenneth leads has its Head Office in Nairobi with several multinational and multicultural teams sitting in each of the markets and covering all critical functions, typical of any multinational i.e. Finance, Sales, Marketing, Logistics, and Retail Operations.

In Nokia, Kenneth is passionate about leaving a lasting legacy in Africa by positively impacting the lives of the millions of Nokia consumers through devices and mobile solutions that leave a positive mark in their lives.

Join us this Thursday the 27th of January 2011 from 6.00 p.m. – 7.00 p.m. as we listen to him about his journey through the corporate world.Kindly RSVP here.

By: Jessica Colaco

24-01-2011

Events iHub

Ladies Mapping Party

Dear Ladies,

Do you want to change the world? Join us at iHub on 12 February 2011 for a Mapping Party using Google Map Maker! There are places around the globe that still do not have access to high quality maps, but we can change this using Google Map Maker. We are going to be working together to map out Kenya, building a better map for everyone in the world to see.

No experience is necessary and all you need to bring is your local expertise, a good attitude, and your laptop. This will be a really fun group activity, and at the end of the Mapping Party we will be able to see how much we have contributed to the community. Just take a look at this YouTube video of Da Lat, Vietnam for inspiration

Please RSVP by 2 February 2011 to confirm your attendance at the Mapping Party.

You can see more examples of Google Map Maker transforming the world at http://www.youtube.com/user/googlemapmaker and if you have any questions or require any clarifications, please email: galsonmaps@gmail.com .

By: Tosh

19-01-2011

Community Events

ADA Nairobi Event @ the iHub

“Design creates culture. Culture shapes values. Values determine the future.” Robert L. Peters

Designers & Creative people are privileged to create amazing work and influence the world around them. We are also a fantastic lot of people and these connections are something worth naturing. January is here and our event is not too far. We look forward to discussing about the design industry, collaborations and various other topics while we get together and forge a way forward for 2011. This event also doubles as Nairobi’s 3rd Creative meet-up.

Event: Thursday Jan 20th
Venue: iHub Nairobi
Ngong Road (Opposite Uchumi Hyper)
Time: 6pm – 9pm

Register / RSVP
http://adanairobi11.eventbrite.com/

Hashtags: #ADANairobi11

We look forward to seeing you soon!

By: Tosh

13-01-2011

Community iHub Members

Mobile Monday with PesaPal

The Mobile Monday-KENYA team is excited to be starting 2011 with a very exciting line up of Speakers. This coming Monday the 17th of January they will be having PesaPal, a payment platform that helps Kenyans buy and sell on the internet using Mpesa,Zap and Credit Cards. They will be talking about “E-commerce ecosystem in Kenya.”

If you’re into E-commerce and M-commerce this is a MoMo event you don’t want to miss!!

Please remember to register here

By: Tosh

11-01-2011

Community Events iHub Members

Wikipedia Tech Talk @ iHub

You are welcome to attend a talk by Dr.Ting Chen, the chairman of Wikimedia Foundation’s Board of Trustees who is in the country to attend the official launch of the Wikipedia for schools project as well as a celebration of Wikipedia’s 10th Anniversary. Please fill up the form below to confirm the attendance of the talk at the iHub at 6pm on the 12th January 2011.

The agenda will be:
1. Local Content
2. Wikipedia as a tool of life, education
3. Offline & Limited versions of Wikipedia
4. Developing Applications for Wikipedia, MediaWiki and other Wikimedia Projects.
5. Wikimedia as a foundation – non-profit ICT.

Click here to register

By: Jessica Colaco

07-01-2011

Community iHub Members

*iHub_ in the Making – Part 1

2010, the year *iHub_ came to life. Here is Part 1 of the *iHub_ in the making. Stay tuned for Part 2…

By: Tosh

04-01-2011

Community Events Members

Drupal 7 release party at *iHub_

The release of Drupal 7 will be celebrated around the globe on the same day: January 7 2011. The party will take many forms; from large commercially funded parties to livingroom bring-your-own parties: the fun is everywhere. Be sure not to miss the Nairobi Drupal 7 release party. Kenyan Drupalists will be meeting at the iHub on Friday 7th January at 6pm to share, learn and show some Kenyan love to the Drupal community.

Drupal is an open source content management platform powering millions of websites and applications. It’s built, used, and supported by an active and diverse community of people around the world. It is a free software package that allows anyone to easily publish, manage and organize a wide variety of content on a website. Hundreds of thousands of people and organizations are using Drupal to power an endless variety of sites. Some of the more dynamic websites powered by Drupal can be found here

Drupal 7 has been under development for two and a half years of development by over hundreds of contributors. It is finally ready and the community is ready proudly present Drupal 7: the best version of Drupal yet. With a refined and more intuitive user interface and hundreds of enhancements under the hood, Drupal has never been more powerful.

The release party is an opportunity for Kenyan Drupalists to meet face to face, swap tips, and get inspiration for their next Drupal projects, making friends along the way. Hopefully, they will initiate a local Drupal user group that can be meeting regularly to learn together and build the profile of Drupal among web technology users in Nairobi.

Please click here to register for the event
Twitter hashtag #d7rp_nairobi

Post by: Solomon Mwangi